Suspender-end



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J. A. ADAMSON.

SUSPBNDBR END.

Patented May 19, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J. ARTHUR ADAMSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SUSPENDER-END.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 318,339, dated May 19, 1885.

Application tiled September 1l, 1884.

12 all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, J. ARTHUR ADAMsoN, a zitizen of the United. States, and a resident of Philadelphia Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Suspender-Ends, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a suspenderend constructed, substantially in the manner dey scribed and claimed hereinafter, with a view of obviating the discomfort due to thick, heavy, and protuberant suspender-ends.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front view of the suspender-end; Fig. 2, a side view of the upper portion of the same; Fig. 3, a perspective view of a strip of braid, showing the mode of preparing the same for conversion into the suspender-end; Fig. 4, a perspective view of one of the loops of the suspender-end, and Fig. 5 a view showing one of the legs of the suspender-end.

Flat and comparatively thin braid A, preferably of silk or partly of'silk, is used in making the suspender-end, and in manufacturing this braid pegs a. are interwoven with the threads at given distances apart, these pegs being afterward withdrawn so as to leave holes a extending edgewise through the braid.

rIhe Inode of interweaving the removable pegs with the threads will be readily understood by those familiar with braid-making. rIwo strips of this braid, each of appropriate length and having a hole at an appropriate distance from each end, are selected and converted into a suspender-end in the following manner: First, one end portion of each strip is drawn through the hole to the extent shown in Fig. 5, so as to form the button-loop b. The

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two flat webs are then preferably stitched edge to edge, after which the upper ends of both strips are folded over the ring B, as shown in 40 Figs. l and 2, and the folded end of each strip secured by a clamp, D.

It will be seen that each leg of the suspender-end is composed of two thin braids arranged edge to edge, the leg thus presenting/ i5 a thin web which cannot interfere with the comfort of the wearer, as is the case when the suspender-end is composed of cords.

Vhere one part of the braid passes through a hole in another part, there is an extra thickness; but the suspender-ends may be pressed so that the thickness at the crossing-points is but little more than at other parts, and much thinner than ordinary suspender-ends where the loops are made by lapping one braid across the other.

Instead of using pegs a in making the webs A,the latter may be braided loosely at the desired points and holes afterward formed in these loosely-braided portions of the web by a suitable instrument.

I claim as my invention- A suspender-end composed of a doubled piece of Ilat braid provided with a transverse aperture, one branch of said end passing through the aperture and extending adjacent to the other branch, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

J. ARTHUR ADAMSON.

Vitn esses:

JOHN M. CLAYTON, HARRY SMITH. 

